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have included the descriptions of those fishes in the deep-sea series, it will he useful to 
enumerate them here, with an indication of their geographical range. Of the nineteen 
species obtained at a depth of 345 fathoms, four are identical with Mediterranean 
species, five are representatives of Mediterranean species, eight belong to genera with a 
wide range at great depths, and two only must be regarded as peculiar Japanese forms. 
“L. Centrophorus squamulosus, 
2. Centrophorus foliacens, 
3. Beryx decadactylus, 
4. Polymixici japonica, 
5. Lepidopus tenuis, . 
6. Bhysicidus dalwigki, 
7. Haloporpliyrus lepidion, 
8. Macrurus jctponicus, 
9. Macrurus macrochir, 
10. Macrurus par allelus, 
11. Coryphcenoides nasutus, 
12. Coryphcenoides villosus, 
13. Bathythrissa dorsalis, . 
14. Xenodermichthys nodulosus, 
15. Gonostoma gracile , 
16. Synaphobranchus pinnatus, 
17. Synaphobranchus affinis, 
18. Nettastoma parviceps, . 
19. Myxine australis, . 
) Eight species of Centrophorus from the coast of 
) Portugal, Madeira, and the Mediterranean. 
Madeira and the coast of Portugal. 
( One species of this genus from Madeira and St. 
{ Helena. One species from Cuba. 
^ One species from the Mediterranean and the 
( East Atlantic. 
Madeira and St. Helena. 
Mediterranean, Madeira, and the coast of Portugal. 
I The species of Macrurus and Coryphcenoides are 
/ generally distributed over the deep sea. 
Peculiar to the sea off* Japan. 
Peculiar to the sea off Japan. 
, One species from the Mediterranean and Madeira, 
) the other from the deep sea, and generally 
( distributed. 
Madeira, Brazil. 
Japan. 
One species from the Mediterranean. 
Southern coasts of South America.” 
At 6 p.m. the ship proceeded for the passage between Vries Island and Nipon, 
which was passed at midnight. The light at Joka Sima was not seen farther than 
10 miles. 
The temperature of the surface water off Ino Sima was 3° higher than in Yedo Bay, 
and it gradually rose to 68° between Vries Island and the mainland. Here a current was 
met with setting northeast at the rate of one mile per hour. 
On the 13th at 5 a.m. Rock Island was passed, and the ship was steered to the 
westward towards Matoya to keep out of the current. At noon the barometer began to 
fall rapidly and a southerly gale was expected, for it was noticed whilst lying in 
